A decade of austerity in the NHS could mean the end of some free services and more financial pressure for the rest of the public sector, a leading think tank has warned.

In a report published on 4 July, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that maintaining the current real-terms freeze in NHS spending between 2015 and 2017 would mean cutting spending in other areas of the public sector by an average of 2.3% a year.